NewsLives Watches When News Gets Busy

Field notes

NewsLives treats audience behavior as a signal rather than treating every broadcast as equally urgent. Its stated detector combines broadcaster-written labels such as “Breaking” with a 2.5× jump over a channel’s moving average and an absolute floor, then clears the flag after three quiet checks or 90 minutes. The directory covers 302 channels in 89 countries and 43 languages. At extraction, the public homepage showed zero channels on air while retaining the directory.